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It's long drive on this highway
The window creaks its jagged way down
I breathe in the new air
for the first time in months

George Watsky is building
his Cardboard Castles in my stereo
On repeat-

I think of Emerson
On repeat-
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On repeat-
I think -
I feel like his transparent eyeball
Repeat-
His eyeball-
I  begin to understand
what has always seemed
a clumsy metaphor

I begin to feel -
one with everything
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everyone is love
Repeat
Love
Every-Everyone is me
And you
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Everyone is all I need.
Repeat
I am all I need
And you -

I don't need anything
Except for -
-more road
-more time
-more gas

the CD starts skip-skip words
Hopping - lines
Reminding me
Of finite fuel
Repeat-
finite time
with work looming just hours away
Repeat-
death, just decades away

Then, as if responding to my overturned thoughts
My ****** speakers belt out:

Hey ******* -
The sun is shining
NaPoWriMo
Why does thinking of love
Make me think of you?
I don't even get it

Why is love thought to be so strong
When you can love a pair of shoes

Why is love tied with loss
Was it asked to

How does love tie with you?
I walk the halls
I am a ghost
I barely eat
sleep
I love you
I miss you
you tore  me apart
I can still stand
but every breath
I take
its like there is
a slit in my heart
and the only thing
holding it together
are the veins
on the outside
i visited you on a Saturday
and i didn't know
       what to expect.
you wore a blue sundress
that afternoon,
and we stepped into the shade
of a weeping willow.

we laid and talked,
                    only talked and held hands.
after a while we walked back to
  where you sleep
                    and  talked again.
we talked and then
my love for you grew
  as a young man's love will naturally grow
when he is in the arms of his love,
  when he is in the arms of love.
                   we kissed
and such a sweetness i found!

a sweetness as only young ones know when
  tasting love for the first time came from
                     your mouth!
my God! your mouth...

and then we fell,
                     both of us this time,
  fell into something we did not understand,

                     but knew just the same!
we had been waiting,
                     one for the other...
to be complete
  we gave in to what we could only feel.

nothing we could see or had heard of could have

                     helped us learn this bravery
  against youth.

and so we fell,      
                     blindly, expectantly,
knowing only that
  my shadow, my highest,
                     my heartbeat

would always be yours:
  my first, my all-time, my yellow;
                     walk with me again...
Forbiden love always seems to be most attractive
So the love meant to be in question is never answered.
The will to do anything is free,
But hearts don't break peacefully.
We've all payed the toll in exchange for rights of passage
Bittersweet memories in valentine packages
Possessive words put together, in an orderly fashion.
Though I wish I could tell the truth,
A lie doesn't comfort me,
It just keeps me close and so far away from you.
I saw you in my dreams,
you make it hard for me to breathe in my sleep.
Your words so cold,
where is your soul,
you're not a ghost,
you're not alone.
Stop wandering about,
roaming endlessly throughout my tired mind,
there's no room for you,
you aren't empty,
you'll never be just a memory.
 Sep 2013 Holland Vandrepole
Emma
you've faded away like the ashes
and whirled about in the air
like the
smoke
that
escapes
my
mouth
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